Iran has hanged 11 men it says were members of a terrorist group responsible for a suicide bombing which claimed the lives of 39 people.

An image grab taken from footage broadcast by Al-Alam TV on December 15, 2010, shows the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up during a Shiite religious procession in the Iranian city of Chabahar Photo: AFP/GETTY

The executions were seen as retribution against Jundullah, a feared terrorist group which had claimed responsibility last week’s attack in the south-eastern port city of Chabahar. Jundullah said the bombing, which targeted worshippers observing a solemn day of mourning, was carried to avenge the hanging of its leader, Abdulmalik Rigi, earlier this year.

“Eleven members of the terrorist group and mercenaries who had a role in terrorist activities, fighting police and killing innocent people were hanged,” said Ebrahim Hamidi, head of the Justice Department of the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. The executions took place at dawn in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchistan.

IRNA, an official news agency, identified all 11 men, which indicated that they were members of the Sunni ethnic Baluchi minority.

Jundullah says it is fighting for the rights of the Baluchi minority in the remote Sistan-Baluchistan, which it says suffers discrimination at the hands of Iran’s leadership.

Iran has accused the group of links to al-Qaida, and claims its members are being trained in Pakistan.

The United States designated Jundullah a terrorist organisation earlier this year.

Iran has done nothing wrong. Iran is strictly obeying international law.
An attack on Iran would be illegal, since under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and that is “perfectly legal”!
– Ron Paul on Iran and Energy June 26, 2008

No, it is not only about oil, it’s about something far worse.
Ask yourself what will happen, if Israel and/or the U.S. attack Iran?
What will such an attack cause?
If your answer would be something like:

“That can’t be!” or “They would not do that intentionally, would they?”

Then you are right on.
And then you have the reason, why they are really doing it.
If I would have told you this straightaway, you would probably have called this a conspiracy theory and you would have dismissed it. More on what is going on under World Situation (2.Politics).

IRAN READY TO HIT UK

IRAN is poised to launch terror attacks in Britain if the West presses ahead with military strikes against its nuclear facilities, intelligence experts warned last night.

As tensions in the Middle East continued to grow, they warned that the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah had already established sleeper cells in Britain and mainland Europe tasked with carrying out bloody reprisals.

Likely UK targets include nuclear power stations, military bases, Government buildings and high-profile politicians and members of the Jewish community.

Richard Kemp, former adviser on terrorism to Tony Blair, said the difficulty of attacking Western and Israeli military targets directly meant Iran was likely to use its terror network to retaliate. Hezbollah, formed in Lebanon in the 1980s, has grown to become a major force in the Middle East.

He said: “In my view Iran’s only realistic method of retaliation is through Hezbollah.

“Hezbollah undoubtedly have the capability to carry out attacks against Western targets outside the region. They have people here in the UK and they would aim to carry out attacks if they saw us as being in any way supportive of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

Pakistan’s former Army Chief, Retired General Mirza Aslam Baig, says the US is supporting the outlawed Jundullah group to destabilize Iran.

He said that the US is providing training facilities to Jundullah fighters–located in eastern areas of Iran–to create unrest in the area and affect the cordial ties between Iran and its neighbor Pakistan.

Baig added that Iran and Pakistan are under the siege of western conspiracies.

The intelligence agencies of the coalitional forces are very active in Afghanistan and work against the interests of Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia in the region, he said as quoted by Pakistan Daily newspaper.

The former Pakistani official hailed Islamabad’s decision to hand over the captured Jundullah members to Iran, saying those working against the interests of Iran and Pakistan should be dealt with iron fist.

Jundullah is a terrorist group, headed by Abdolmalek Rigi, which operates in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan and Pakistan’s Baluchistan.

Last month Pakistan handed over Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of Abdolmalek, to Iran.